U+085B "࡛" Mandaic Gemination Mark Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
࡛
U+085B "࡛" Mandaic Gemination Mark is a combining diacritical mark used in the Mandaic script, which is historically employed to write the Mandaic language, the liturgical language of the Mandaean religious community. This mark is placed above a consonant to indicate gemination, or the doubling of that consonant’s sound, a feature that affects pronunciation and meaning in the language. It is part of the Mandaic block in Unicode, encoded to support the accurate digital representation of Mandaic texts, particularly for religious and scholarly purposes.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+085B |
| Version Added | 6.0 |
| Name | Mandaic Gemination Mark |
| Block | Mandaic |
| General Category | Nonspacing Mark |
| Canonical Combining Class | Below |
| Bidirectional Class | Nonspacing Mark |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ࡛ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ࡛ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE0 0xA1 0x9B |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x085B |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000085B |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u085b |